Those were the days..

Those were the days.
The days when I woke up at 8:30 in the morning and waited for harsha to come pick me up.
The days when, we ended up at college at 10:30.
The days when, we used to run around, hiding from the princi.
The days when we walked into class at random.
The days when we begged and pleaded for attendance.

Those were the days...
The days when we came up with fancy excuses to bunk class.
The days when we tried to forge signatures to get out of college.
The days when we enjoyed the grand lunches at the placement office.
The days when we won those basketball matches.

Those were the days...
How i miss those days! The days when we tried all kinda fancy gimmicks. The days when we ran around for Carpe Diem. The days when we lost all that money. The days when we shot that movie. The days when we worked night and day for the VLSI conference.
Those were the days...

The days when we sat studying together late at nights.
The days when I had to go back home in the chilly night.
Those were the days....

How I wish they were back! How i wish we could do it all over again. How I wish, we were never separated.
But life moves on.
Just reminiscing...

Thanks for the great times guys.

Home..

Its been a long time since i wrote here.
A lot has happened since i bought that domain name. With lofty dreams, i came here hoping to fulfill them.
And now as time moves on, they are on the verge of being shattered. Flew across 8000 miles, almost 18 countries, 3 continents, one big ocean and now what. To have them all being blown to smithereens, as I watch.Its not been easy.
For the first time, I come out from home. Away from the shell that surrounded me and protected me from the big bad world. Here I am, out in the open, vulnerable to all the challenges and the perils out there in the open. And its not a nice feeling, I tell you. Every time, I have a couple of hours to waste, my thoughts invariable drift back to college days and the stuff that I enjoyed doing so much. Its all coming back and makes me feel horrible. I wanna go back. But then once engrossed in work, I hardly seem to notice it.

Today, as I write this, I have an exam lined up for this week and a bunch of assignments and an horrible lab. The workload is sometimes unbearable. They always spoke of the light at the end of the tunnel, but funnily, I dont seem to be able to find it. Its a long way away and they tell me, I'm gonna enjoy it once this is over, but why cant I enjoy it while I'm doing it?

I wanna go back home. Back to my shell, where no one cared of what I did, or how I did it.
I wanna go back home now.

Domain name!

Its been a long time since i've posted here.
A lot has happened since then. I'm now almost outta college. And I guess I'll be off to the US just like those millions of guys who keep running away.

But yesterday, i found a coupon for www.godaddy.com
It let me buy my own .com domain for $0.99. Kewl! aint it! Anywayz, including the extra ICANN registration fee, it cost me Rs.60.41 Pretty cheap i say!
The coupon is valid on most top level domains. Heres the coupon for the interested souls

99BUYCOM

And yeah, my blog can now be accessed from www.maranellored.com
This purchase also means that now I've gotta start posting regularly and try to manage my blog more effectively.It'll prolly be revamped completely once i find the time :D

Thats all folks!

The 49-O Rule

Ever walked into a polling booth and looked at the list of candidates and felt, "Oh crap. All these morons suck" ?

Ha, I did feel that way last time. I'm sure many of you do feel that way many a time. Did you know you can choose not to vote ?

There has always been an option for the voter to reject the candidates. If ever you feel none of the candidates in the election are worthy of your vote, you can choose to cast a Null Vote.

This is provided under the 49-O Rule of the Electoral Commission.
This makes sure that your vote is registered and also conveys to the Electoral Officials, that the guys are completely unworthy of the cause. This also prevents voter fraud and misuse.

The sad part is, this rule has always existed since 1960 but no one is ever educated about it. It was by pure co incidence that I came across it. Its time we make people aware of this.
Heres the wiki link 49-O Wiki

Imagine if we all exercise this option, next time.

I for sure am gonna exercise it, come next election time. What about you ?